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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2001
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method useful in the process of making a forming tool, such as metal stamping tool. The apparatus ( ) performs a method of scanning a working surface ( ) of a tool part ( ) with an optical shape measurement camera ( ) to obtain electronic images from different views of the working surface, and then processing the electronic images to develop a first set of data defining the three-dimensional shape of the working surface. The first set of data is then processed with a second set of data having a correlation with the shape of the working surface to develop a third set of data defining differences between the first and second sets of data. The second set of data may define the shape of a part formed by the tool or the master shape of the part.